December 15, 2020
DELAWARE – Delaware took a major step in the fight against covid-19 on Tuesday, as the first Delawarean received the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine at Bayhealth’s Kent campus in Dover.
Health officials say the first dose went to Elisabeth Cote, a progressive care unit nurse at Bayhealth. She received the vaccine around 24 hours after the first shipment arrived in Delaware.
In a statement, Governor John Carney said “After nine long months fighting Covid-19, this is a moment of hope for Delaware and for our country. There is light at the end of the tunnel.”
So far, the state has received 975 of it’s 8,775 pre-ordered doses of the vaccine from Pfizer. The rest of the vaccines should be in the state on Wednesday.